Physical Attributes And Training

| Chapter 5 - Physical Attributes And Training |

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After finishing with all the tests, Arthur finally came up with a result. The results were as follows.

- Superhuman Strength (~High)

- Superhuman Agility (~Peak)

- Superhuman Durability (~High)

- Superhuman Reflexes (~High)

- Superhuman Senses (~High)

- Superhuman Regeneration (~High)

- Sixth Sense

This was the result that Arthur came up with. This consists of only his physical attributes with including his abilities that could enhance them. In a sense, they were his base attributes. Arthur had a hunch that if he were to include his abilities and skills as well then he would definitely breakthrough and enter the realms of Cosmic entities.

And if he were to consider his Shadow Army as well then he could even increase his overall power to Mid Cosmic Grade. This was only if Arthur considers that his shadows would be weaker then him. But since he has the help of Sofia, he could even hunt down beings who were stronger than his Shadow Monarch form.

In simple words, the Shadow Monarch has almost endless potential. The only thing he has to do was kill beings who were stronger than the current shadows. Arthur could even see himself in the future commanding a huge shadow army consisting of countless Cosmic grade generals.

Moving back to Arthur, after testing his physical attributes, he started testing his abilities and skills. It turned out that they were the same as what he remembered from the manga. The only thing was that some simple abilities has been upgraded to a higher grade. For instant, the Shadow Monarch's ability Stealth has been upgraded to Absolute Invisibility. Similarly many ordinary abilities has been upgrades to a higher level.

Of the many abilities that he has, the most noticeable ones were.

- Absolute Invisibility (Upgraded from Stealth)

- Ruler's Authority (Advanced Telekinesis)

- Dragon's Fear

- Shadow Extraction

- Shadow Preservation

- Shadow Exchange (Teleportation)

- Monarch's Domain

Even a single one of these abilities could allow one to take a position among the Avengers, but when all of them are given to a single person, the Avengers don't deserve to have him on the team.

But this was not the end of it, because although the Shadow Monarch has many abilities and skills, his most noticeable feature or talent as you may have it that makes all the people scared of him was his inhuman growth rate.

It was simply his growth rate that was more terrifying than his powers. Because a person could have infinite potential, but to gain power, he needs training and time. Without these two, even a person with infinite potential was not far from useless. But for the Shadow Monarch, these two factors were the least of his concern. As his growth rate was simply phenomenal.

After Arthur was done with his tests, he decided to head back home. At the same time, Sofia was also done with her books. Arthur really envied her ability to absorb and understand knowledge. In fact, it might even be comparable to his growth rate. Although Arthur could also remember all the knowledge after reading it once, but understanding it was altogether an entirely different matter.

And although Sofia could directly transmit all the knowledge into his mind, Arthur still won't be able to understand it. When Arthur asked if transferring understanding of a topic was even possible, Sofia replied with affirmation. But she said that it required a deeper bond between them and also her understanding of his body to be deeper. Rushing to do so could potentially harm his mental state and death would be the least of his concern.

Arthur could only wait for the time when she would be able to, safely. But for now, he could only keep the books in his shadow space and head back home. After using Absolute Invisibility and calling Sofia back into his body, he left for his home.

After reaching home, Arthur went to his bed and laid down as there were still few minutes left for midnight. Aa the clocked turned to 12, Arthur decided to login.

"System, let's login for the day."

[Login successful.]

[Reward- $100,000,000]

[Description- Money needs no description.]

Arthur was surprised that the system could also rewards him with money but on the grand scheme of things, money was slightly on the list of useless things. After all, he could buy whatever things a fourteen year old boy could ask for. He just has to request his parents and they would surely buy for him if his request was acceptable.

As for other things, Arthur had no way to access them even if he has a lot of money. At most, he could start a research institute with his money but there was nothing he could research currently. And even if he could, Arthur doubted that those corrupted politicians and evil organizations would let him research in peace.

For now, he could only let the money seat in the default system inventory. This type of inventory was different than the normal ones as only the unclaimed rewards could be stored in the default system inventory, hence the word default.

Since the login was already completed, Arthur went to sleep.

The day went by normally except for the fact that a few of the girls noticed the changes in Arthur and tried to approach him, but Arthur politely rejected them while trying to make sure that it doesn't affect their friendship. Gwen, who was just next to him, didn't fail to grab this opportunity to tease him as a small revenge for yesterday.

Soon, it was night time and like the previous day, Arthur went to the abandoned building, but unlike the previous day, he went there to train rather than test.

After reaching there, Arthur asked Sofia to make a few simple gym equipment like training bench, dumbbells and resistance bands. He had already showed her the pictures earlier and with a little bit of guidance, she was able to replicate them perfectly. Arthur also asked her to create a carpet of about 100 square meters which would act as force absorbers.

First, Arthur started with bench press. As for weights, he had earlier asked Sofia if could alter the density of her body and the answer was yes. So he simply asked her to increase the density of weights so that they would be around 10 tons. Arthur tried lifting once and had absolutely no problem so he asked her to increase the weights to 25 tons. Even then, Arthur had no troubles.

He continued increasing the density until the weights were about 750 tons. Now, it is hard to realise exactly how huge that weight is. But comparatively speaking, the amount of force that Arthur has to apply was twice that of the force that Superman exerted to stop the Boeing 777 from crashing.

But that was still not the end of Arthur's strength. At 750 tons, Arthur felt only a slight amount of pressure, it was not his current limit. So he asked Sofia to increase it 800 tons. Now, Arthur had some trouble while lifting the weight, but it was still not stressful. In the end, Arthur was lifting 875 tons when he really had trouble lifting them.

Every time he pushed his hands upwards, he could feel slight vibrations in his muscles. Thus he decided to hold on to 875 for now until he had not trouble lifting them. Arthur pulled off 50 reps of 875 tons of weight before shifting towards the next course of training.

Arthur performed many different exercises that includes weights. By the end, he could clearly feel his strength increase and even more so, his control over his strength. Next, Arthur choose to simply run with weights. With every two kilometers, he would increase the weights by 25 tons.

Arthur initially started with 700 tons. For this, he did not choose to lift weights, instead he simply asked Sofia to increase the weight of the Semi-Symbiote Suit which he now called White Ghost Suit to 700 tons.

With the weights in place, Arthur starting running into the forest. After every two kilometers, the weights would increase by 25 tons. Since Arthur wanted to increase his endurance and stamina, he ran as slow as possible to receive maximum strain on his body. In the end, he was able to complete 18 kilometers before he was exhausted with a peak weight of 900 tons.

After that, Arthur decided to train his agility. For agility, he would choose the peak weight from endurance training and try to run five kilometers as fast as he could. Arthur returned back to the building after removing the weights so that he could recover his stamina. Due to his superb healing factor, by the time he reached the abandoned building, Arthur was already back to his peak.

After wearing the 900 tons weight once again, Arthur started his run as quickly as he could. In just the first minute, Arthur realised that with the 900 tons of weight, he speed was back to that of a normal human. But because of his terrifying stamina and endurance, he was able to maintain his peak speed for longer duration and managed to finish the five kilometers within 21 minutes.

Comparatively speaking, 21 minutes falls within the time frame of what an advanced athlete would require to complete five kilometers which was 20-23 minutes. Thus, it could be said that Arthur's agility was highest out of all his physical attributes.

Within the next hour, Arthur completed three more runs of five kilometers each with timings 21 minutes, 20 minutes and 19 minutes. From these four runs it could be seen just how amazing the growth rate of the Shadow Monarch was. By the end of tonight's training session, Arthur could already feel improvements in his physical attributes.

After the agility drills, Arthur decided to end tonight's training session as he has not yet planned how he would train his reflexes and senses. As for the healing factor, Arthur knew that it couldn't be simply improved by 'training' because a lot of factors are involved when determining someone's healing factor.

Thus, Arthur decided to simply end tonight's training session. He quickly returned home and used the login opportunity as it was already past midnight.

[Login successful.]

[Reward- True A.I. (Technology)]

[Description- A book containing all the knowledge to make a true A.I. that has the human trait of thinking. Remember, the amount of knowledge gained as well as the understanding depends upon the reader.]

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Word Count - 1750+

NOTE- I am not exactly aware how much weight the Shadow Monarch can actually lift, so I just took something which I felt was really superhumanish.

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